[Horizon]

The origins of cable tv were all about providing local services, but in most cases this never really materialised.

In my area 20+ years ago when cable tv started, we had a local teletext service which was run by the local college in partnership with the cableco. The plan was to turn this into a local tv channel and get funding through ads from all the local shops and other business'. But the cableco merged and merged again, until it was no longer interested in serving local services and it never happened. The college even had the tv studio and equipment all set up and ready to go. And their students studying journalism were to be the reporters and presenters and editors and producers etc

Why don't all these local channels contact the business' in their respective areas and get local ads to fund them?